Path: news.ccsf.jp!norn-news!news.mcu.or.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: rcaetano Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Tired of Nihon Pt. 2 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 07:22:07 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 221.186.221.241 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1199719328 15337 127.0.0.1 (7 Jan 2008 15:22:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=221.186.221.241; posting-account=GjtUMgoAAAAX1Nmaz-dETUMejMLMFbZI User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:166596 On Jan 4, 12:35 pm, cn72...@gmail.com wrote: > Now that I finally have one week's holiday (after 6 months solid > work), I can finally catch up on some internet usage. > > Anyway... my own country, Australia, is like a foreign country to me > (in terms of work), because I never worked full time there. > > I have a question for the Australians here. Is it possible to have a > normal job in Australia? Where you can realistically leave at 5pm > (without being frowned upon)? Of course I am not too obsessive about > leaving time... 5:30/6:00/6:30 on occasion would not be the end of the > world. I've heard Australians are almost as workaholic as Americans. (The Japanese are not workaholic by the way.) > I hold on to the dream of returning to Australia, it is the only thing > that gives me hope when I have to work excessive hours (sometimes > until the last train home, the 12:04am). I hope you're getting paid for overtime. Otherwise, why bother? Unless you get paid a good annual salary, but since you mention a mid- sized Japanese company, that's unlikely. Just get a good excuse as someone else mentioned. You're not getting promoted anyway. Rafael Caetano